Who West didn’t even claim to meet, nor does he even claim to know who the guy is.
My point is, this is a pretty weak “exclusive” by West - “I met a guy, who knows a guy . . .” He can do better.
Allow me to briefly point out that the government knows exactly who was in the seat on that airplane. Now, tie in the fact that the NSA has publicly come out talking about making 'connections' with 'metadata'. They know who was there. The also knows who knows who by virtue of phone and email metadata (they don't even need the actual conversations for this). They can easily connect this guy back to the originating person if he's telling the truth (i.e. that he, personally talked to the person who was on the ground). Now, we know that that guy has been positively identified within 1 minute of West posting his account.
Question for those in the audience: What is the estimated life-span of this person? Days?
I think West may have run a counter.